The first significant order came, however in 1970 not for plant and chemicals, but for sub-contract services. The chocolate manufacturer Cadbury was so impressed with the results from a test run on a few stainless steel chocolate moulds, that they placed an order for processing 20,000 moulds. This order was to be the fore-runner of Anopols' venture into sub-contract electropolishing of stainless steels.

Rapid expansion of the business demanded that Anopol move to a larger facility in the Digbeth area of Birmingham. Over the next 25 years, Anopol purchased two further factories in Digbeth as the demand for sub-contract services continued to grow. In 1985, the two brothers John and Brian Swain negotiated a management buyout from the German parent company and as an independent company Anopol has gone from strength to strength.

In 1994, a majority stake was acquired in a small electropolishing company Stainless & Allied Services (SAS) of Bordon, Hampshire, to extend services to customers in the South of England. This company, now wholey owned by Anopol and operating as Anopol (South) Ltd, relocated in October 2004 to a much larger facility for the second time since the acquisition by Anopol.

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